Bill > HR5492

This bill, the Veteran Families Health Services Act of 2023, aims to improve the reproductive assistance provided by the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs to certain members of the Armed Forces, veterans, and their spouses or partners. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Requiring the Department of Defense to provide fertility treatment and counseling, including through assisted reproductive technology, to members of the Armed Forces with infertility conditions and their spouses, partners, or gestational surrogates, without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or marital status. 2. Establishing procedures for the retrieval and preservation of reproductive genetic material from members of the Armed Forces whose fertility may be jeopardized due to injury or illness. 3. Authorizing the Department of Defense to provide members of the Armed Forces on active duty the opportunity to cryopreserve and store their reproductive genetic material prior to deployment or hazardous duty assignments. 4. Adding "fertility treatment and counseling" to the definition of "medical services" under the Department of Veterans Affairs, and requiring the Department to provide such services to eligible veterans and their spouses, partners, or gestational surrogates. 5. Providing adoption assistance of up to the cost of three adoptions to certain eligible veterans. 6. Facilitating collaboration between the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct research on improving the reproductive health care for veterans.

Health and Social Services, Military Affairs and Security

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5492/all-info